Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano

Yvonne
Yarbro-Bejarano is a Professor in the Spanish & Portuguese Department at
Stanford University.She was
inaugural Director of the Chicana and Chicano Studies Program in Stanford’s
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and after chairing the
Spanish & Portuguese Department, directed the Chicana/o Studies Program
again from 2002 to 2008.For
several decades now, she has been involved with the critique of dominant
heteronormative discourses in Chicana/o Studies, as well as the analysis of
cultural representations of Chicana/o queer sexualities, subjectivities, bodies
and desires.

Since 1994 she has
been developing the digital archive Chicana Art, a database of images and
information featuring women artists for research and teaching.

Yvonne is the
author of the books Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega (1994) and The
Wounded Heart:Writing on Cherríe
Moraga (2001).She also co-edited
Chicano Art:Resistance and Affirmation
(1991).Her research, writing and
teaching focus on representations of race, sexuality and gender that
interrogate such discourses as home, family and nation.

As Director of
Chicana/o Studies, Yvonne and her team organized “Feminicide = Sanctioned
Murder:Gender, Race and Violence
in Global Context” in May 2007. This international conference examined the
extreme gender violence that has assumed epidemic proportions in such countries
as Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina.It brought together leading activists and experts on the
subject of feminicide.